Brief Self Biography - I received my bachelors degree from the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering department at UNM in 2005, and continued in that department for graduate school advised by Sang Han. My first year of graduate school largely involved the design and building of an MBE machine to study the growth of germanium films on silicon. After completing my Ph.D, I would like to work at one of the national labs, which I think is a good balance between academia and industry.
/Research Interests Description– My main interest is studying the kinetics and thermodynamics at the interface between different crystalline materials. Things get very interesting at the nanoscale in this area where the physical properties are different from those in the bulk of the materials, and we study this using a variety of surface science techniques. This knowledge is then applied to the design of cheap engineered substrates for growing devices such as multi-junction solar cells and high speed transistors. Therefore, my Ph.D will be one half materials engineering, and one half device work, and this suits me well because I tend to like a broad range of activities.
